200 Years of Rose Law, But a Rather Quiet Party
The 200th anniversary celebration of the Rose Law Firm on Nov. 1 wasn’t exactly how its managing member planned it. read more >
The 200th anniversary celebration of the Rose Law Firm on Nov. 1 wasn’t exactly how its managing member planned it. read more >
The feud between former University of Arkansas Head Football Coach Bret Bielema and the Razorback Foundation is getting worse. read more >
Sexual harassment allegations by colleagues have followed a Washington Regional Medical Center cardiologist for years. read more >
Evictions are rising in Arkansas, even as a national moratorium is in place, according to two nonprofit law firms that offer free legal help in civil cases. read more >
Attorney Carter Stein is concerned about the lack of civil jury trials in Arkansas state courts since the middle of March, when the coronavirus began to overwhelm the state and country. read more >
The Sanford Law Firm PLLC of Little Rock has appealed an award of $1 in attorneys’ fees from U.S. District Judge Billy Roy Wilson, who wrote a blistering order about the firm’s billing practices in June. read more >
An 89-year-old Little Rock man has accused an ex-con of defrauding him of $4.5 million in less than three years. read more >
Law professors at the UA School of Law and the UA Little Rock’s Bowen School of Law spent their summer vacations preparing for both in-person and online classes, a trend that could continue after the pandemic fades. read more >
Everyone can agree that Steven Booth lent an Alabama mining research and development company $54 million that hasn’t been repaid. But past that, agreement breaks down. read more >
A $22.4 million judgment against Wells Fargo Bank tied to a case over unwanted faxes wasn’t based in reality, according to bankers’ associations. read more >
The June 22-24 bankruptcy fraud trial of Bill and Carolyn Schwyhart in Dallas is expected to produce a ruling from Bankruptcy Judge Harlin Hale during the next few days. read more >
Officials of a bankrupt Arkadelphia insurance agency ignored red flags indicating owner Berry Bishop was committing bank fraud, according to a trustee suing to recover $7.3 million. read more >
A former in-house attorney for Walmart Inc. said he knew in February 2017 that his career at the Bentonville retailer was coming to an end when he refused to make changes to a memo he had written years earlier about a bribery investigation in Mexico. read more >
A group of plaintiffs’ attorneys, most of whom were involved in a controversial 2015 class-action suit, were recently awarded $2.8 million in fees for a class settlement against State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. read more >
Arkansas attorneys are bracing for a surge in bankruptcy filings as a result of the financial upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic, and they aren’t alone. read more >
Robert Lewis saw warning signs during his short time as a director of Quapaw House Inc., the Hot Springs nonprofit organization that acquired the assets of scandal-plagued Preferred Family Healthcare a year and a half ago. read more >
The deletion of nearly 46,000 text messages was key to a Lonoke County jury awarding $14.1 million in February to a group of farmers who did business with Turner Grain Inc. of Brinkley and its trading partner K.B.X. Inc. of Little Rock. read more >
As the novel coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on people and the economy, attorneys are bracing for a flood of lawsuits in its wake. read more >
A federal grand jury in Arkansas has charged the sisters, who are all in their 70s, with cheating the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of millions of dollars intended for minority farmers who had suffered discrimination in USDA programs. read more >
Matt Robinson still had questions before his 2015 purchase of a troubled funeral home in Jacksonville, but he went through with the deal anyway. The decision would be costly. read more >
